Образователната политика на Руската империя по отношение на колонистите и отражението й върху грамотността на българите в края на XIX в
Education Policy in the Russian Empire in Regard to the Colonists and its Impact of the Bulgarians in the Late 19th Century

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the reforms in the Russian Empire in regards to education in the nineteenth century and their influence on education background and literacy among Bulgarian colonists. The article uses information from a number of works published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, containing historical and statistical information on the placement of Bulgarians within the Empire. It is based also on the analyses of the Russian Imperial Census of 1897. It contains information on the Bessarabia Governorate, Taurida Governorate and Kherson Governorate, densely populated by Bulgarians. In the late 19th century the Bulgarians were known as illiterate people. The work represents some aspects of in the Russian education policy that influenced the literacy of the Bulgarian population in the Empire.

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